Lead Platform Engineer - AI Enablement

In this Lead Platform Engineer role, you’ll guide platform engineering across hybrid and remote teams while staying hands-on with cloud work. You’ll set engineering best practices to improve reliability, performance and scalability, and champion the adoption of AI across day-to-day operations and larger initiatives. You’ll collaborate with product, engineering managers and QA to align tech strategy with business goals, while embedding DevSecOps and risk mitigation from day one. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape platforms that scale with a fast-paced fintech environment.

• Salary to 130k
• Bonus (c20%)
• 28 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• 1k learning and development budget
• Private Health Care
• Wellbeing allowance

• Lead and mentor Cloud/Platform engineering teams to raise performance and engagement
• Identify bottlenecks, optimize resources and ensure consistent delivery across distributed teams
• Stay hands-on in cloud/platform engineering, defining best practices for scalability and reliability
• Drive AI adoption within the team and across engineering initiatives
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Managers and QA to align technical strategy with business objectives
• Embed DevSecOps principles to ensure security, monitoring, compliance and automation are integral from the outset
• Foster open and transparent communication across remote, hybrid and office-based teams

• Experience managing Cloud/Platform engineering teams
• Deep understanding of modern cloud/platform engineering practices and scalable architectures
• Proven track record in reliability, performance and continuous improvement cultures
• Strong cloud experience (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP also acceptable)
• Experience scaling platforms to support containerised environments
• Strong communication skills bridging technical and non-technical audiences

• Leadership and mentorship
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Azure (preferred)
• AWS or GCP (acceptable)
• Cloud/Platform engineering